Weather could force play into Monday

THE Ryder Cup will be extended into Monday if the inclement weather persists and forces any delays to the event schedule, European Tour chief, George O’Grady confirmed yesterday.

After the tail-end of Hurricane Gordon wreaked havoc across Ireland and closed the facilities at the K Club to the public for nearly three hours early yesterday, O’Grady revealed that if Monday play was necessary, it would happen.

“We’ve looked into all the contingencies,” he said, “and we’ve always had them go into Monday if we had to. But we don’t want to visit that right now at all. The thing is that we have time up our sleeve when Sunday comes. I think this is a one-off today.”